Recent attack.

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Big "Thank you" to Woopert for alerting me and then running reverts. We're still trying to mop up this guy and guarantee he doesn't ever register again.

~Evan
 
Cleaning up some images he posted. I can't rename some od the things he changed.

L_X
 
Nobody touches anything ATM. We'll try to set up a more efficient way to clean it all up. Last thing we need is fifty people trying to rever everything at once and working at cross-purposes.
 
Considering his return, why don't we disable new users from signing up until we can find a more specific solution?
 
Because a certain (better not said out loud) by the name of Zhen Lin forgot to give anyone else the power to do that and He's offline right now!
 
No, really?

Getting on MSN and warning me *there* might work better.
 
Can we just uplug the server?

After this, we have to make getting an account harder.

We should force some way of making people wait for approval or have to provide a valid email address or something.

Banning someon doesn't do shit when they can make another account less than a minute later.
 
I can'T do a thing myself beyond blocking hte fuckwit when they show up. Need Zhen or Arcy to do more.
 
If worst came to worst, we could always simply restore the 'pedia from before the server issues from backups anyway. We'd prefer not to of course though, which is why we're fighting this bastard.

We *will* be forcing accounts to require approval soon. It's not something we ever wanted to do, but this guy is leaving us with no choice. We're certainly not going to cave into their (likely fake) demands. That'd only make us all the more vulnerable to this kind of attack.
 
Hmmm....he might not be using a bot afterall...

Love to know why he thinks we don't like non sysops editing pages. It's not like people have been blocked at any point from editing, excepting when we're doing maintence. Hell, look at the TPM pages. Most of the editing done there wasn't even done by people with BMGf accounts!
 
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He called me a Power Nazi who doesn't like non-Sysops editing pages... but I'm not a Sysop...
 
I hate attacks. It has happened to my site/forum before twice in the past. It's such a pain to clean up.

I hope you guys find out a solution to easily undo things like this in the future, such as if you delete a user, you can delete all of his/her posts (or in this case, edits). I wonder who did this? (has an idea, but does not want to wear out his stay already)
 
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